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Futuring Heritage: More-than-human Tensions, Negotiations and Place-making in the Eastern Himalayas

The NWO-funded project Futuring Heritage: Conservation, Community and Contestation in the Eastern Himalayas kicked off on January 6, 2025, with a multi-day workshop with our consortium members in Meghalaya, India. Abhimanyu Chettri and Anna Notsu, two PhDs of the research cohort, introduce their research projects.

Anna Notsu and Abhimanyu Chettri • October 14, 2025

Futuring Heritage: Conservation, Community and Contestation

‘Futuring Heritage: Conservation, Community and Contestation in the Eastern Himalayas’ is a project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). In the eastern Himalayas, agency is not just attributed to humans, but also to animals, plants, rocks, rivers, mountains, spirits and deities, often in a combination thereof.

Erik de Maaker • September 17, 2025